American Idol contestant Joanna Pacitti — who advanced to the top 36 — has been disqualified, a show rep announced Thursday.

“It has been determined that Joanna Pacitti is ineligible to continue in the competition,” stated a Fox press release.

It has been suggested that Pacitti had a close relationship with a pair of executives from 19 Entertainment, the company that produces Idol.

Pacitti will be replaced by Felicia Barton.

The 23-year-old Pacitti — who belted Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” during her audition in Louisville, Ky. — moved to L.A. at 16 after signing a deal with A&M Records.

She has also been featured on some soundtracks to Legally Blonde and First Daughter.

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Joaquin Phoenix’s bizarre antics continued on Wednesday’s Late Show With David Letterman (watch video, above).

While promoting his new movie Two Lovers, the star, 34, hiding his face in sunglasses and a heavy beard, spoke in monosyllables, didn’t smile and mumbled his way through the interview.

At one point, Letterman joked: “What can you tell us about your days with the Unabomber?”

When Letterman asked about Phoenix’s new rap career, the star said, “I’d love to be on the show and perform.”

Letterman shot back, “You know, that seems unlikely.”

Toward the end of the interview, Letterman heckled Phoenix about chewing gum while chatting. Phoenix then put his gum under Letterman’s desk.

“Joaquin, I’m sorry you couldn’t be here tonight,” Letterman said as the interview came to an end.

Phoenix announced last year that he was retiring from acting to pursue a hip hop career. Some have speculated that Phoenix’s recent wacky antics are part of an elaborate hoax.

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Nadya Suleman, the now-infamous mother of octuplets, has received death threats, her publicist, Joann Killeen, claims.

Killeen says the threats got so bad that Suleman, 33, and her other six children recently moved into a rented house and out of the home she was sharing with her parents in southern California.

“Because of the death threats to Nadya and her family, as well as the death threats to me and my agency, we were in a secure location last week,” Killeen says on Thursday’s Dr. Phil show. “When the risk was determined, it was no longer a high threat, we were able to leave that location.”

Suleman and her children are now back with her parents.

Suleman — who is single, unemployed and receiving food stamps — has undergone scrutiny for deciding to impregnate herself again after giving birth to six children.

On Wednesday, blogs were abuzz after Suleman launched a Web site, asking people for donations.

Dr. Phil says people need to focus on the children’s well being.

“There are 14 children here,” he said. “We always say we don’t want to throw out the baby with the bath water. Well, we don’t want to throw out the babies with the mother here. We’ve got to focus on these kids.”

On Thursday, TMZ.com posted a photo of Suleman eight days before she gave birth to the last eight of her fourteen kids.

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Sorry guys, but there won’t be a live-blogging of Lost tonight!  My whole family has been really sick this week, and I need a night off! I have been so sick the last two days, that I haven’t even watched tv myself!  I still have to watch the Bachelor and Nip/Tuck!  So I’m taking the night off to get caught up on tv, and just relax.

We’ll meet again next Wednesday!

Jocelyn

Mandy Moore and alt-rocker Ryan Adams are engaged, Moore’s rep, Jillian Fowkes, confirms to E! News.

The musically inclined duo first began dating quietly in December 2007 but weren’t discovered until March. In July, Adams released a statement regarding their breakup, blaming the spotlight surrounding the 24-year-old starlet.

Shortly thereafter, Moore flew to the side of ex-fling DJ AM following his tragic plane crash. They reunited briefly, but the flame had fizzled by the end of December.

The first buzz of her reunion with Adams came just last week, when he posted a photo of them together on his blog. The picture, taken during Sundance, has since been removed.

The multihyphenate has dated her fair share of fine famous fellas, including Wilmer Valderrama, Andy Roddick and Zach Braff. Her next album, Amanda Leigh, is set for release in May.